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From:	"Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To:	"Baras, Gal" <Gal DOT Baras AT det DOT qld DOT gov DOT au>, "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: How can I set up users?
Date:	Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:07:08 -0000
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Baras, Gal wrote:
> The complete answer to my question was that a user was required in
> /etc/passwd.  To find this user's ID, I had to use 'ls -ln' on some
> files I owned, then copy the Administrator line, change the ID from
> 500 to my own (400) and the pw_gecos field to "my_domain\my_user_ID".

Umm. That's kind of messy.

Try:

$ man mkpasswd
$ man mkgroup


Max.


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